Man Who Terrorized, Sexually Abused Rye Teens Gets 15 Years

RYE, NY — A man who preyed on the best instincts of teenage girls and tormented a Sound Shore community will go to prison, giving his victims a chance to live their lives while he pays for his actions.

Westchester County District Attorney Miriam Rocah announced on Monday that the Port Chester man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting two teenagers during two separate attacks in Rye in June of 2023.

"Westchester County is safer now with this defendant off our streets," Rocah said. "No one should fear for their safety in their neighborhood or community. We thank the brave survivors who showed incredible strength in coming forward to work with our office and ensure this defendant was brought to justice."

22-year-old Richard Olmino pleaded guilty on April 1 to felony first degree criminal sexual act and felony first degree sexual abuse. He was also sentenced to 20 years of post-release supervision and is required to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison.

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On June 23, 2023, around midnight, Olmino asked for help from a 16-year-old jogging in Rye Town Park, then took her phone and threw her to the ground as she tried to escape. Olmino told the victim that he had a knife before exposing himself and sexually assaulting her. A park security guard interrupted the attack, causing the defendant to flee. Police investigating the scene found Olmino's cell phone.

DNA evidence from the incident linked Olmino to a separate incident that took place on June 3, 2023 on Parsons Street in Rye, where, around 1:30 a.m., he approached an 18-year-old who was walking home from an after-prom party, asked for assistance, then took her cell phone and threatened her before sexually assaulting her.

The City of Rye Police Department arrested Olmino at his Port Chester home on June 25, 2023, after police, with assistance from the Westchester County Department of Public Safety and the FBI’s Westchester Safe Streets Task Force, used his cell phone to identify and locate him.

Olmino, who has two open warrants in Connecticut, including one for public indecency, and a pending criminal case in Suffolk County, has remained remanded to the Westchester County Jail since his arrest.

"No matter how much I begged or how hard I cried, you showed me no mercy," one of the victims said in a statement to the court. "In fact, you threatened to harm me.... I thought I was going to die there, alone, in the town that I loved.... What you did was heinous, but it did not break me. I'm here today, to look you in the face, and voice everything I could not that night."

In fact, both victims spoke of lingering pain and defiance in the face of a stranger's abuse.

"You witnessed, preyed upon, and took full advantage of my kindness, empathy, and generosity to you, and in that moment, you made something so beautiful about me, seem so ugly....," the second victim said in her statement to the court. "What happened wasn’t my fault, and I will never stop being kind, empathetic, and generous. That is something you will never ruin in me."